Random ramblings from the cluttered brain of a Brit ex-pat North Devonian trying to keep cool in the steamy summers and warm in the frosty winters of The Great White North.

Wednesday, 24 October 2007

Shoe Tree

I don't know how long this ancient willow has been decorated with discarded footwear, or who nailed the first shoe onto the trunk.But not only shoes.Boots, runners, flip-flops.Typical of Canada, halfway up, there's even a pair of rusty hockey skates.

19 comments:

Oh that is funny, can't remember were it is that we often drive too but there is a tree that someone has thrown shoes on all the limbs, it is very interesting to see, i have always wanted to stop and take a photo, but seem to be driving too fast to stop, well maybe next time i will

Are they all in pairs? Maybe someone found one lost shoe and put it on the tree and it grew from there. Or maybe it is what you titled the post....A Shoe Tree. A rubber Tree.....A Sad Sole Tree.....A Bootertree...Maybe the old woman who loved in a shoe started there.

that's so funny about the hockey skates! I don't know why it's done, but there's a tree near our hideaway that has them all over the limbs too, like lilli's. Curious.

btw, i think it would be perfectly fine for you to Play It Forward with me!! If you're gone a month, you'll still have over a month to get and send out goodies, it's just by the end of the year and in fact you could modify the rules on your end and say by January __!! So just email me your address and I'll find/make the perfect gift for ya: madeline@retzlaff.com!

Is this a new fashion, like the shoes you can now find at a lot of places, hanging on telephone or electric cables? (This used to have a signification of drugs sales, but obviously not any more and most certainly not in this "tree case".)

How funny is this?? I read this post either Wednesday or Thursday and thought it was pretty amusing.... I then went for a local walk with my husband Sunday morning and came face to face with a large old dead tree with scores of old shoes (in pairs), laced together and strung all over the branches! I felt a definite sense of deja vu!!

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Enjoying life! I'm well over the halfway mark so I'm not wasting any time grumbling. Empty nest Mum to two young men who are embarking on life's journey, and doing it with style, confidence and enthusiasm, accompanied by their lovely wives. And now I'm Nana to three gorgeous little boys and a beautiful little girl. Lucky me!